shrug already covered many angles on this but Unforgiven is basically a slasher movie starring a
failed redeemed slasher in the same way John Woo movies are about failed redeemed assassins
Yeah but itâs still shot in a way that like makes it a dad movie
I love Walker, watched it back when I was watching all of Alex Coxâs movies
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havenât seen âwalkerâ yet, will check it out. my favorite western is gillo pontecorvoâs âburn!â, a movie that captures very specific and yet really broad social dynamics that exist(ed) in southern america and the caribbean in that timeframe.
just like âthe battle of algiersâ (probably the best movie ever made depending on the day), it has a lot of depth in short lines, plus the visuals are really cool
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Watching the George C. Scott The Changling makes me want to see somebody match up various similar scenes in The Conjuring and/or Insidious (I canât differentiate the two in my head, sorry) to see just how totally at odds they are with each other in terms of how they approach horror. Thereâs a scene where George C. Scott goes up the attic with somebody in the dark with just a flashlight (after spooky things have been happening), and absolutely nothing happens. When they leave, the wheel chair lets out a creek.
john travolta did a movie right after pulp fiction called WHITE MANâS BURDEN where the premise is that what ifâŚWHITE PEOPLE were oppressedâŚwouldnt that be fucked up or what? travolta spends the entire 90 minutes doing this fucking awful racist patois that is concentrated audio blackface. he gets fired from his job, beaten by the police, evicted, and separated from his wife in the span of a day so he decides to kidnap harry belafonte (who is his wealthy black boss who like accuses him of peeping on his wife??) and the movie just turns into various white people threatening and menacing a black man, so you not know any different than real life already. REALITY JUST CHANGED SIDES!!!
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I donât know. The framing can be pretty stately but itâs cut with an aggressiveness that suggests someone whispered in Clintâs ear about the dark coming of The MTV Generation and he thought his meandering elegy to asshole old men with guns and horses needed 5 closeups and a mid between âguess Iâm gonna start drinking again and become a demon of murderâ and Stupid Asshole Poser Kid saying âdang that dude was taking a shit and I blasted him! Iâm not a demon of murder like you! I canât do it! youâre a real bad man who is a demon of murder! hope I can ride off this ptsd on the way home! that guy I shot was pooping! dang!â
then nine more cuts and
âyeahâ
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i honestly didnât think this would require so much back and forth but am i wrong in assuming clint eastwood is for dads??? dads love nihilistic bullshit
am i the only person who mentally shelves this movie with braveheart, the hunt for red october, shawshank redemption, the godfather, etc?
morgan freeman is in it! it won like every academy award! it has lots of grand dramatic shots of landscapes and sunsets and shit!
iâm not trying to say it is a bad movie it is just like, very hollywood. i thought i was making an instructive comparison between that and cormac mccarthyâs hellscapes of human depravity.
Nothing requires anything.
Iâm sorry I should realize there exists no audience in the world for a paragraph-long âjokeâ about all the weirdly rapid cutting with little apparent motivation in Unforgiven.
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Is there anything from that film that canât be taken away from the frenetic trailer?
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Nope!
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watched Relic tonight and all i can say is [prolonged farting noise]
is this the one where a woman with dementia is actually possessed by a demon or something? i saw a bunch of reviews about how good it was and then read the premise and felt like ⌠so confused. it sounds so offensive. i mean having been in this position before, i definitely understand that there are like feelings of confusion and sadness wrt a family member having Alzheimerâs or dementia that feel uh exploitable for horror movie purposes but i also feel like if itâs something you thought about for more than 5 seconds you would realize how selfish and dehumanizing that is.
i guess there may be potential for it to not be as horrible as it sounds but whenever there are big buzzworthy horror movies like this no one ever wants to talk about what they are actually about.
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Thanks to the folks who, if not here then somewhere in the forum recommended Sorcerer. This is dumb of me but I couldnât help but think of Death Stranding truck deliveries during the most harrowing terrain-traversal-hell scenes.
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itâs another movie about an old woman with dementia + demons(?). So not only is it a shitty premise, itâs not even a new shitty premise. I tried to watch the taking of deborah logan (the movie i think ur thinking of) a while back and it was so shit so fast i stopped watching real quick, like come on:
^this exactly.
fsr i stuck with this one in the hopes that one of its like, 30 different tropes would crystalise into something interesting (they donât) or that it would maybe address the fears and stigma it had been building on the entire time (it doesnât, but maybe it thinks it does).
beyond having shitty themes it was also just narratively incongruent; demons, dementia, haunted houses, haunted uhh, windows??? strange dreams. Itâs not like u canât string together a cohesive plot with all of these elements, but in this instance none of them felt related or deliberate.
anyway yeah hard pass on these imo
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The Longest Day blows. Three hours of talking directly to camera about how important D-Day is and how historic it is with a D and E-plot staring actual nazis as themselves. The good parts are that it was an insane project that used the actual Omaha Beach and every other real location along with as many real nazis, french resistance, and allied troops as they could find. There is also a scene where they use carrier pidgeons, parachute, grappling hooks, and balsa wood planes. Then John Wayne will show back up and fucking suck.
The film is just a collection of scenes we are supposed to assemble into what happened on D-Day so yâall can watch this incredible scene of French Commandos without context because there is none outside of THE FRENCH ARE BACK IN FRANCE BABY:
John Wayne fucking sucks.
I was expecting Wild Geese to be like a shitty old men playing war film but it is actually Metal Gear Solid V PHANTOM PAIN: The Movie. Without all the sexism. There are two content warnings to this great time: use of the N-word several times and war crimes: they just cyanide gas a whole barracks.
Outside of that it is fucking great. I loved it. Itâs another one of those that is just on youtube and donât know if any of you have taken my recs yet but if you want to see a film Hideo Kojima has definitely watched a dozen times and you probably have never heard of it here you go:
The Longest Day gets one out of five Listen Here This Day Will Go Down In History
Wild Geese gets 5 out of 5 precocious English sons.
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I watched Swallow last night and I am pretty conflicted about it. The comparisons to Todd Haynesâ SAFE are extremely fair, but I think Swallow ultimately avoids heading in the same direction as that movie. Where it goes is what has me conflicted whether I think itâs a good film or a very good film. Idk, has anyone else watched it?
p.s. watching it I was (superficially) reminded of reading Clarice Lispectorâs The Passion According to G.H. and I learned there is a film adaptation of that coming out this year, which I think is about the most difficult text you could adapt as a film.
A Bridge Too Far maybe?
real answer would be Cross of Iron
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Wait what is the question? I have watched a bridge too far and Cross of Iron. Both of them were good. CoI had no budget for war scenes though.